Exploring Co. Kildare's Heritage using digital humanities techniques, photography, digital imagery, and 3D technology
Exploring Co. Kildare's Heritage using digital humanities techniques, photography, digital imagery, and 3D technology
Kildare Online
Aspects of Kildare’s Heritage documented using digital humanities techniques, photography, digital imagery, and 3D technology
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Welcome
On this website you will find examples of my work focusing on various aspects of County Kildare’s Heritage documented through photography, photogammetry, and writing. I use a variety of imaging techniques, not only to document heritage structures and monuments, but also as a means to carry out research. For example, employing digital photography and 3D modelling to reveal hidden or difficult to see surface detail on stone monuments.
The website also contains various image galleries, videos, and other miscellaneous digital bits and pieces. The website is a work in progress and will be added to on an ongoing basis. Thanks for visiting!
The main image above shows the little known but magnificent disused five arched Harristown Rail Viaduct spanning the River Liffey in County Kildare. It would make a stunning highlight to a potential Green-way, should one ever be developed (hint hint) along the old Naas to Tullow Rail Line. The colourful image beneath this text is a detail photograph of a stained glass panel created in 1997 by George Walsh, for the Church of the Irish Martyrs, at Ballycane, Naas, County Kildare.
Digital Imaging Techniques
DEV-Low Imaging
This is a new methodology for improving the visibility of depth in certain types of low relief sculpture by utilising 3D models generated through photogrammetry. From these models orthographic images are produced, which are then subjected to a digital photographic processing technique that creates a visual adjustment based on differences in depth. The end result is a considerable improvement in the visual appreciation of detail in low relief stone sculpture. I developed this method in early 2020 as a solution to enhance the visibility of the details on the eroded partial high cross shaft at Old Kilcullen.
Depth Enhancement Visualistion for Low Relief Sculpture, or DEV-low
3D Technology
Photogrammetry
This little known standing stone outside of Naas, was refereed to by 19th century antiquarians as ‘the Longstone Rath’, due to its location within a large earthen banked enclosure. A burial cist was discovered at its base during an archaeological excavation in 1912. The site dates from the Bronze Age.
Remote Imaging Technology
LiDAR
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote imaging technology that uses laser emitting equipment, typically mounted on an aircraft, to send and receive laser light bounced off a study area in order build up three-dimensional information on the topography of the earth’s surface. LiDAR data can be further processed using a number of techniques, including Hillshade Analysis.
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Photography
Heritage Documentation
Documenting through photography a wide variety of heritage including, stone monuments, buildings, architectural details, plaques, and stained glass. These images need to be changed
Aerial Archaeology
Details of the potential archaeological sites I have identified though aerial imagery, maps, and LiDAR.
Barrows
Enclosures
Field System
Ring-ditch
Vector and Raster graphic Illustration
Illustration
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote imaging technology that uses laser emitting equipment, typically mounted on an aircraft, to send and receive laser light bounced off a study area in order build up three-dimensional information on the topography of the earth’s surface. LiDAR data can be further processed using a number of techniques, including Hillshade Analysis.